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Eight university students arrested

2011 Mar 10

Eight Peradeniya University students were arrested on Wednesday while they were pasting posters, the Inter University Students Union (IUSF) said yesterday.

IUSF convener Sanjeewa Bandara said the posters were meant to urge the authorities to upgrade the Department of Management into a faculty. He said the Department also catered to Arts faculty students though the funds allocated and resources available were the same as any other department. “The upgrading of the department of management to a faculty is long overdue,” Mr. Bandara said and added that management students hadn’t adequate lecture room facilities for their daily lectures. He said the poster campaign was launched to bring the grievances faced by students to the notice of the authorities.

The Centre for Human Rights and Research (CHR) Sri Lanka, www.chrsrilanka.com the sister organization of Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) www.caffe.lk, was established in 2010 in a bid to address the growing human rights concerns in the country and to educate the people about issues which have been neglected by the main stream media or civil society groups for various reasons. In addition to our continuous work with CSOs and human rights activism, in the past four years we have studied, spoken about and published greatly on Freedom of Information, Academic Freedom, and the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC).